Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
TERESA OF AVILAThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Pain is never permanent.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Love turns work into rest.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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